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Chapter 438 The fox pretends to be the tiger's power
Belfshka, who was anxiously waiting, soon received a reply from his superior, and his heart suddenly settled down.

He then quickly contacted Cai Yaobin, and the two sides began to negotiate over the details...

"Are they really going to sell it?"

Director Ge was also very excited to learn that the technology transfer had entered the negotiation stage, and he wanted to tell Kang Chi about this good news immediately.
But after calming down a little, he decisively gave up the idea.

"It would not be too late to notify Academician Kang after they have officially handed over the information, so as to avoid him being disappointed."

Director Ge tapped his fingers lightly on the table several times, then looked up and ordered, "It's time to announce the diversion plan for Tianwen-2... It should be able to divert some attention."

"Ok!"

The next morning, the China Aerospace Administration officially held a press conference. Academician Zhang, the chief engineer of the Tianwen-4 project, came forward and focused on introducing that Tianwen- will be redirected to the Sun's Lagrange L region to carry out a new exploration mission.

Rimu Lagrangian L4?

After hearing the news, most of the reporters at the scene were stunned, while some of those who reacted faster immediately thought of Lucy’s disappearance some time ago.

"May I ask why Tianwen-2 suddenly changed its original plan?" A reporter from International Space looked at the new route map of Tianwen-2 and couldn't help raising his hand and asked, "Are you going to investigate the reason for Lucy's disappearance?"

"Yes, you guessed it right." Academician Zhang said frankly, "The main purpose of our change of route this time is to investigate and verify whether there is a small black hole in the 'swallow' area as NASA claims."

As soon as these words were spoken, the reporters present were immediately excited.

When NASA announced Lucy's disappearance and the reason for it some time ago, it caused quite a stir.

But soon, they were criticized and ridiculed by scholars around the world, who believed that using the excuse of black holes, which is used to deceive children, to cover up the failure of the plan was simply rubbing the IQ of the whole world into the ground.

No one expected that China actually believed NASA's rhetoric and even temporarily modified a major space exploration plan!

"So you think there really is a black hole there?"

"What if Lucy's disappearance was just a simple space accident?"

"..."

Domestic and foreign reporters at the scene raised their own questions, and in the face of these questions, Academician Zhang simply gave a unified answer:
"If this small black hole really exists, it will undoubtedly be a major discovery in astronomy this century, so even if the possibility is very low, we want to witness it with our own eyes!"

After saying that, Academician Zhang walked down from the podium. Then Director Ge came up to the podium and used a very official speech to mention that China will vigorously develop and encourage private aerospace companies. However, because of Academician Zhang's speech, no one took this "standard talk" to heart.
Little did they know that this was the real foreshadowing of this press conference...

Just like the reactions of reporters at the press conference, when this news was released by major media outlets, most people felt that it was somewhat outrageous.

What followed were all kinds of doubts. They believed that this was a trap set by Old M and that the huge project costs of the Tianwen-2 exploration program would be wasted. Some professional and authoritative Tianwen scholars even conducted well-reasoned analysis, which led to a greater pace.

If this was Chief Engineer Zhang's own idea, he might not be able to withstand such great pressure from public opinion, but fortunately this was Kang Chi's idea, and it also received full support from the leaders of the Space Administration and the Aerospace Group. Therefore, Chief Engineer Zhang did not feel any pressure at all, and his life and work continued as usual.

Even if Tianwen-2 really finds nothing this time, the pressure is still on Kang Chi.

Of course, not everyone follows the crowd. Anyone who knows more about China's aerospace industry knows that they never act without a purpose. No matter how outrageous their plans are, there must be a reason behind them, or the press conference itself has other unknown purposes.

"I guess they must have known some key information!"

Freya Hawke, director of the Ouzhou Space Agency, gave a serious order, "From today on, keep a close eye on the 'swallow' area and Tianwen-2, and contact NASA to see if you can get some useful intelligence from them."

"Ok."

Hawke's assistant immediately walked out of the office to convey the order. Similar scenes were happening in the aerospace departments of many countries.

As you can imagine, NASA’s phone was almost blown up.

"I didn't expect they would actually take the bait?" Georgiou and Holka, who first proposed to make Lucy's news public, couldn't help but feel overjoyed, but at the same time a new problem arose.
It is of course a good thing for someone to be the pathfinder, but the question is why should they share the intelligence they have gathered with you?
The two of them thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with any good solution. In the end, they could only throw this problem to the diplomat to worry about...

……

After the technical demonstration meeting of the Qingtian Project ended, Kang Chi just kept consulting and studying various aerospace materials and was not in a hurry to officially start work.

Moreover, there are two important preparatory tasks that have not yet been completed, and the efficiency may be even lower if we start work in a hurry.

Just when Kang Chi was still worrying about the high efficiency of the learning machine and the lack of study materials to read, Zhuo Yuewen, who went to Yanjing to negotiate with Blue Arrow Aerospace, finally called.

"How is it?" Kang Chi asked immediately after answering the phone, "Did they agree to the authorization?"

"Well, they agreed to our proposal. From now on, every time we build a rocket engine that uses their patented technology, we only need to pay Blue Arrow Aerospace a patent fee of 3 million. And the premise is that the engine is put into actual use, not the test machine in the laboratory."

three million?
This price is obviously much lower than Kang Chi expected.

After all, the planned engines are recyclable, and the maximum that can be built in the early stage of the space shuttle is ten. If one spacecraft requires 30 engines, the total patent fee is only 9 million yuan.

Being able to use this amount of money to buy the core technology patents of a company with a market value of more than 10 billion yuan is definitely a good deal.

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Of course, once the Sky Plan is proven to be efficient, safe and low-cost, it means that mankind will soon enter an era of large-scale space development. By then, more and more space shuttles will be needed, and Blue Arrow Aerospace will probably be able to count money without doing anything.

However, Kang Chi didn’t draw this cake for them, because they probably wouldn’t believe it even if he did.

"Besides the three million patent fee, do they have any other requests?" Kang Chi asked with some concern, "They know that I am only using their technology as a basis for research and improvement, right?"

"Don't worry, I've said everything that needs to be said."

Zhuoyue Wen knew that Kang Chi must be confused. Why would Blue Arrow agree so readily when it knew that it was going to license the technology to its "competents"? So he further explained:

"I just briefly analyzed it with their CEO and told him that even if they didn't authorize you, you would still research this technology..."

"With your ability, even if you start from scratch, it will only be a matter of time before your technology surpasses theirs. By then, not only will they have to face the problem of technological lag or even elimination, but they won't get a penny from the patent fee. This scared them so much that they immediately agreed to the authorization."

Kang Chi couldn't help but roll his eyes after hearing this.

Although he also knew that Zhuoyuewen's "fox borrowing the power of the tiger" had good intentions and was entirely for the benefit of him and the company,
But this slightly 'intimidating' method was somewhat not to Kang Chi's liking.

After all, Blue Origin is a company that is dedicated to scientific research, so it would be unfair to scare them like this.

But now that things have come to this, Kang Chi is too lazy to care about these trivial matters.
Anyway, one day, Blue Arrow will be glad for this decision.

Just when Kang Chi was about to ask Zhuoyuewen to sign the contract quickly and take back the technical data, Zhuoyue suddenly said, "By the way, they also made a request."

"What request?"

"They hope that if you make a technological breakthrough, you can consider investing in Blue Arrow and letting Blue Arrow join Longteng Group's manufacturing supply chain. In exchange, they can provide the entire control system for free in advance."

"Yeah, of course no problem!"

In fact, even if they didn't mention it, Kang Chi would consider giving them the order in the future.

After all, building a space shuttle and developing space requires a huge industrial chain, which is definitely not something that Longteng Group can handle alone. If everything has to be manufactured by itself, how big will the scale of the enterprise have to be...

I have to say that the board of directors of Blue Origin has a long-term vision. No wonder they sold Kangchi at a good price.

(End of this chapter)